Seeing that the Xueling Canal is about to be completed, the construction team has already reached not far outside Changle County.

When Luo Yong was not busy these two days, he often wanted to go over and take a look. A lot of food was delivered. He also brought the wife from Chang'an City to give guidance on cooking and cooked a lot of delicious food for the working people. The construction site was lively and it was like celebrating the festival every day.

This year, there are many people growing pumpkins in Changle County. Pumpkins are cheap. Luo uses people from their county government offices to buy pumpkins. They all buy them as carts.

In the past two years, a way to eat pumpkin cakes is popular. In the past two years, when pumpkin and tender corn are ripe every year, steam them, mash them evenly, and then fry them into golden, soft and glutinous pumpkin cakes. They taste very sweet, and both men, women, young and old love them.

This kind of pumpkin pie was first circulated from the A-sister's food shop. Pumpkins were expensive two years ago. A small and thin pumpkin pie was sold for one cent. In the past two years, there have been more pumpkins on the market and the price has also dropped. The pumpkin pie that costs one cent each has become bigger and bigger.

On this open space outside Changle County, I have been making this kind of pumpkin cake in the past two days. In the nearest villages, many children came here to find their own Aye and also took some food.

On this day, Luo Yong and Du Gou and others had dinner on the construction site. Xia Yan mentioned this matter to him. Luo Yong replied: If there is nothing to do, let them eat. It has been a few days since then, but the children are running around on the construction site. You need to be careful when construction.

Not all of them came to eat free food, but some were also sent to deliver things. I heard that the construction site was making gourds and corn cobs in the past two days. There were farmers nearby carrying corn cobs, and some were also sent to send gourds. For wealthier families, they were delivered in a car.

The wealthy merchants and wealthy families in the county heard that they were also raising funds in the past two days, saying that they would hold a banquet in the canal outside the city on the day of Tongqu, and also gave away the magistrate Luo County.

The canal that has been waiting for for so long is about to open, and everyone in and outside the city is very happy.

At this moment, Wu You, who is responsible for managing groceries in the north and south, asked someone to post a notice that as long as you have worked on this canal and whose name is recorded in the workbook, everyone can go to groceries in the north and south to receive a cake for free on the day of opening the canal.

As soon as the notice was posted, Changle County immediately exploded, and excited people quickly spread the news to the surrounding areas.

Some people also say that Wu You are crazy. The construction scale of the Xueling Canal is so large and the construction time is quite long. There are countless people who have done work on this canal. Not to mention a cake for each person, even if it is a piece for each person, it is not a small amount!

Looking at the attitude of the groceries in the north and south, it was not as fake at all. In the past two days, they bought a lot of rice, flour and grain from the county and surrounding areas. The ox carts transported were dozens of cars, and sometimes the convoy could be lined up from their shops to outside the city.

Two more days later, Wu You asked someone to build a tall straw shed in the small square in front of the north and south groceries, and asked someone to pile up the prepared pastries in the straw shed.

I saw that the pile of cakes like a mountain grows like a wind, and looks one day, and they are taller and bigger every day than the previous day. They also built stairs and corridors around the cakes and cakes. Every day, employees from north and south groceries transport goods up and down. The adults and children at the foot of the cakes and cakes looked up and down, as if they were dreaming.

"That bakery must have at least one or two pounds, right?"

"It must be more than one pound."

"That oil-paper bag is one and a half pounds, no more or less."

"Really? How do you know?"

"My niece said that she is working in this shop and has been making cakes every day for the past two days."

"It's the one who just gave birth to a baby earlier."

“That’s right.”

“…”

"I heard that there are several kinds of cakes in it, neatly placed, and then wrapped in greased paper. Two layers inside and outside should be wrapped, and then tied with colorful white threads on the outside, making it very carefully."

“…”

Those gentry men yearn for beautiful mountains, rivers and scenery, but for the people of Changle, there is probably no better scenery in this world than this cake mountain.

Nowadays, this small square is crowded every day. Many people are attracted by this cake mountain and are reluctant to leave when they come. Some people come to join in the fun in wooden rail carriages, and some people sit in snack shops upstairs, eating various snacks while watching the lively scene downstairs.

Recently, the entire Changle County has been very lively. There are scholars, officials, monks, Taoists who come here to see the canals, vendors who come here to do business, and many idle people who come here to watch the canals.

In order to develop the economy of Changle County, Luo Yong has used many means to gather popularity in previous years, but it has never been as lively as this time.

Many children still don’t know the significance of this canal to Changle County, and they don’t know why the city was so lively these two days. They just felt that these few days were like the New Year. Weng Poye’s mother was particularly kind, making new clothes with them and buying delicious food with them.

Groups of children were running around the city, and then they went to the small square in front of the north and south groceries, driving the tall and large cake mountain, and they felt very beautiful.

This cake mountain costs a lot. Wu You just took office not long ago and couldn't make the decision. It was because Luo Yong agreed.

Although this event costs money, it has many benefits. In addition to giving benefits to the public, it can also promote the lively atmosphere of the tunnel on this day, increase the sense of ritual, and leave a deeper impression on the locals of this Xueling Canal and Luo Yong. Even many years later, some people will still be obsessed with the grand and prosperous ritual of this tunnel ceremony, and have passed it on word of mouth, becoming a good story in the local area.

In addition, there is also a certain publicity purpose. Although this north-south grocery in Changle County mainly deals with the business of Hu merchants, the local market should not be underestimated.

After a period of observation, he found that most of the people in Changle County, even rural farmers, had accumulated some accumulations, but since their shop opened, it was very rare for villagers to come to their shop to buy cakes.

Perhaps it is due to the long-term frugal living habits, the concept of consumption is still unfamiliar to many villagers. If they want to establish a certain consumption habit, they must provide some guidance in the early stage, such as discount promotions or free gifts.

After they had eaten cakes from north and south groceries several times and felt that they were very delicious and difficult to give up, they would slowly start to open their own wallets. Then this consumption gradually became a habit. To buy cakes from north and south groceries, it would become a very common thing for local people.

What Wu You and the others have to do now is to gradually cultivate a kind of high-end and distant consumption in the eyes of villagers into their daily consumption.

In fact, at present, at least 30% of the families in the villages and towns under Changle County have this consumption capacity. With the continuous development of white flower planting and the continuous development of various industries, more families will become rich in the future.

For those families who are still poor and cannot afford to buy cakes, this free gift can at least plant a little thought in their minds.

This thought is beautiful and can create value, both for these poor people and for groceries in the north and south.

It was the day when Tongqu was coming, and everything seemed like a dream.

Many people in the city got up before dawn. I heard that someone went up the mountain yesterday and blocked several diverted outlets on the mountain, allowing the water to flow down the Xueling Canal.

In several villages passing through this Xueling Canal, low dams several feet high are built. These dams can intercept flowing water and form a small pool in that section of the canal, which is convenient for locals to obtain water.

Those people went up the mountain to process the diversion outlet yesterday. Based on the current water flow, after a night of accumulation, after filling several pools one after another, it is expected that they can flow outside Changle County today.

Many people came to the edge of the canal early to wait, and this canal did not disappoint everyone's expectations.

First, some turbid water flow with sludge and grass sludge soaked the riverbed bit by bit along the channel, and also soaked the atria and eye sockets of many people on the shore.

Then gradually, the flowing water became clearer and clearer, and under the autumn sun, the clear light was shining...

Someone couldn't help but walk to the edge of the canal below, reach out and touch the clear water flow. When he put down his hand, he felt a sense of coolness and comfort in his heart. He scooped it and drank it, which was very sweet.

This is the snow water flowing down from the snowy mountain!

After being moved, there was a carnival all day.

Some people held a banquet next to the canal, and some people ran to the city to get cakes. There were so many people who thought they would have to queue for a long time, but many people from the north and south were dispatched. In less than half a day, all the cakes were distributed according to the list.

Many people held cakes and cakes to watch the fun in the city. Many vendors came to Le County during these two days, and some people invited the juggling team, singing and dancing actors, various commodities and various performances, which made people dazzled.

The county government also posted a document to celebrate the opening of the Xueling Canal, and the curfew was lifted for three consecutive days to let everyone have fun, and to remind everyone to pay attention to their own and financial security.

Not only was there a curfew contact, but many workshops in the city were on holiday. In the next three days, it was a grand carnival.

For most Changle people, they have never experienced such a grand festival or such a lively scene in their lives.

After the celebration, it was time for Luo Yong and the others to leave. At this time, the afterglow of happiness in everyone's hearts had not yet disappeared, and he did not look particularly sad in the face of this separation.

The people reluctantly sent their County Magistrate Luo to Muzhi Station. Someone came forward to say goodbye. Those who couldn't speak stretched their necks and looked at them from afar.

Seeing them getting on the carriage, several cars in front and behind, they left before dawn, and they were about to rush to Chang'an City to take up their posts. Over the years, they have been delayed for this Xueling Canal.

The horse's hooves were just clattering in the middle of the wooden track, and the cars slid out along the wooden track, and they walked far away without much, disappeared between the gray world, and disappeared.

Until this time, someone realized it and wiped his tears, which made others feel sad. They wiped the tears and the crowd dispersed one after another. Later, those who should work would work and those who should do business would work.

On a hill outside Changle County, I heard that Luo County Magistrate and his team had to pass through this wooden track early this morning, and some villagers were waiting there early.
Chapter completed!